Thursday, September 10 – all day
Friday, September 11 @ 5 pm Pacific / 8 pm Eastern
Shorts Program: DREAM MANIFEST OF INTIMACY
95 min
*Content Warning – Drug use
Enter a dreamscape of romantic love and the fluidity of sexual fantasies. After emerging from a fantastical dream, delve into intimate portrayals of real-life couples and how they express their love, desire, and needs. And finally, a humorous exploration of what it means to “make love to the camera”.
Films:
- Love Your Cunt (13 min)
- Restless* (11 min)
- Ritual Waves (5 min)
- The Abduction of Evalina (8 min)
- Luminous Lust (11 min)
- Sauce (15 min)
- Enough (5 min)
- Missing You (2 min)
- Good Taste (9 min)
- Camera and I (14 min)
Friday, September 11 @ 8 pm Pacific / 11 pm Eastern
Feature Program: FEMALE EJACULATION & OTHER MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE
Julia Ostertag (Germany, 2019)
63 mins
Viva la Vulva!
Author and director Julia Ostertag takes an investigative autobiographical journey through the partly still undiscovered world of female ejaculation. Along the way, she meets six protagonists from five different countries who have dedicated their work to this topic – in film, literature, performance, activism and sex education. Female Ejaculation & Other Mysteries of the Universe offers new perspectives on female sexuality and a sexpositive political herstory of female pleasure through a diversified collection of archival footage, interviews and documentary material from around the world.
Saturday, September 12 – 12 pm Pacific / 3 pm Eastern
Shorts Program: TABOO DESIRES
90 min
*Content Warning – public urination & piss play, BDSM, blood, genital kicking
Journey into the taboo with a documentary examination of public pissing, explore the depths of trust and safety, have some fun with gloryholes, and finally follow along on a quest to commune with nature.
Films-
- Piss Off *(20 min)
- Extrasensory (10 min)
- Shattered*(5 min)
- Bambi & Dahlia’s Big Movie Idea, Part 1 *(9 min)
- Coming Clean (6 min)
- Fagdyke Cruising *(17 min)
- Creampie Gloryhole (5 min)
- Forced Earth Connection *(17 min)
Saturday, September 12 – 4 pm Pacific / 7 pm Eastern
Shorts Program: RITUALS OF TRANSFORMATION
75 min
*Content Warning – descriptions of childhood sexual abuse
Stories of transition, personal growth, and healing past trauma. This shorts program is primarily non-fictional, personal narratives of survival, but there are also films of radical and sometimes spiritual power of sex work to heal. Overall, the existence of these films are a radical act of self-love.
Films-
- Letter to My Mother* (20 min)
- Rising Sun Blues (5 min)
- Ishtar (20 min)
- Mes Cheris (13 min)
- It’s Complicated (15 min)
Saturday, September 12 – 7:00 pm Pacific / 10 pm Eastern
Archival: FONGALULI
92 min
*Content warning – drug use, incest
The archival screening of Fongaluli (1972) will be preceded by the short film, SWEET LOVE (2018) and a short introduction from film scholar Dr. David Church.
Eduardo Cemano (United States, 1972)
72 mins
Archival Screening
This wild adventurous odyssey and fairy tale tells the story of Professor Wurtsis, who is obsessed with cross breeding animals of different species. Research has brought him to a tropical island where he experiences the LSD-like sensation of the Fongaluli leaf and witnesses the transformation of a lobster into a gorgeous and eager young woman, then back again. Professor and lobster set out in search of the Island of Fongaluli, and their adventure leads to encounters with all manners of strange things including the evil Fongawitch and her orgy-practicing disciples.
Preceded by the short film, SWEET LOVE (2016)
Sunday, September 13 – 5 pm Pacific / 8 pm Eastern
Feature Program: TRANSCENDENT BODIES
Barbara Carellas (United States, 2018)
44 mins
Transcendent Bodies follows two transpeople—one gender queer person and one trans woman—through the rediscovery of their desires, arousal and orgasm during an Erotic Awakening massage. The primary intention of this edu-documentary is to help transpeople and their partners negotiate the tricky terrain of changing bodies, emotions and identities that accompany life and sex outside the gender binary. Coincidentally, it presents a model of sexual and sensual relating that can apply to everyone.
Sunday, September 13 – 8 pm Pacific / 11 pm Eastern
Shorts Program: EROS TRAVEL LOG or I LOVE GREEK SALAD
90 min
Soar to new heights with erotic short films from around the globe. Sign up for a trapeze class, taste a little tahini, vlog your next sexventure, or order a hungry boy to be delivered to your door..
Films:
- Mitch & Mack (5 min)
- Air (14 min)
- Welcome to Athens (7 min)
- Masquerade of Madness (20 min)
- Pornlife 2.0 (10 min)
- The Pizza Topping (4 min)
- Domino (27 min)
Monday, September 14 – Replay of the entire festival
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